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1. Erica
   Jul 13, 2011 @ 08:51:04

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2. Jane
   Jul 13, 2011 @ 10:50:17

   @Erica Emailed you back Erica.

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3. Carla Dewhurst
   Sep 01, 2011 @ 10:03:18

   Dear “dear author,”

   Hello, I was wondering if you received my sample and request for advertising advice that I sent in last night. The book is “Ravenhook,”, available on Amazon Kindle.

   Thank you for your time, Carla Dewhurst

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4. Jane
   Sep 01, 2011 @ 10:05:14

   @Carla Dewhurst: Carla, I understand that you posted something that you asked us to remove, but I have not received any email from you.

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5. Carla Dewhurst
   Sep 01, 2011 @ 21:08:55

   Dear Jane, I don’t know where my message keeps going and I am not very computer savvy. Forgive my repeated messages, but I would like advice on marketing my book, “Ravenhook”, published on Amazon Kindle e-books.

   I also would be grateful if you would be interested in reviewing it. See sample below.

   Thank you for your patience, Carla Dewhurst

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6. Olivia
   Jan 14, 2012 @ 04:54:36

   Just giving you a heads up about another person behaving badly, but this time it’s a duo: an author and her agent behaving badly towards a reviewer named Wendy Darling. In all fairness, the author was the nicer of the two, but it’s a pretty sordid tale of a new author and her agent plotting together to deliberately vote positive reviews up in order to hide a specific negative review. And they did all of this plotting in plain view. On twitter.

   http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7149/6693431555_6c54b960b1_b.jpg

   Around this same time anonymous comments popped up on the reviewer’s blog that were incredibly insulting and mean:

   http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7145/6693486991_a0bc52d287_b.jpg

   I don’t know for certain, but some part of me believes that it’s either the author, the agent, or someone that they’d asked to vote up the reviews in order to hide this reviewer’s review.

   http://backinthemidnightgarden.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-selection.html#comment-form

   http://www.goodreads.com/review/show.html?id=231455953&page=6

   Now I know this reviewer and she’s one of the most professional and nicest reviewers I’ve had the pleasure of talking to on Goodreads.

   The author in question is The Selection by Kiera Cass and the agent is Elena Roth. Elena has her tweets protected but you can see them on Kiera’s account where all of these tweets are still posted. I did link you to a picture of the tweets just in case they suddenly come to the realization that they’re publicly talking about maneuvering votes to be more positive about the votes and indirectly asking people to bully the reviewer. (Or maybe directly. Some authors will ask for people to vote things up, knowing full well that the people will find the review and harass the person they’re talking about.)

   This is pretty appalling, mostly because it’s an agent who is acting so unprofessionally. The author is new, so she might not know better but the agent should. They have to get professional training, part of which presumably would or should involve mentioning how to respond to negativity in any format.

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